SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING

摘要

A method of distributing an image study to a chosen image reader is disclosed having steps of receiving an image study Ir urn an image producer at a third party communication module (204), sending a receive notification message to a messaging layer (214), sending a study available notification message from the messaging layer to a workload distribution engine (114) wherein the available notification message includes extracted image study information pulled from study headers of the image study, identifying image study rules from the extracted image study information, applying an image study complexity to the image study based on the image study rules(422), calculating image reader complexities (432) for a plurality of image readers subscribed to receive image studies from the image producer, each of the image reader complexities calculated using the image study complexity and an Image reader profile assigned to each of the plurality of accredited image readers, selecting the chosen image reader from the plurality of image readers based on the image reader complexities, assigning the image study to the chosen image reader(440), and displaying the image study on a user interface to the chosen image reader.